From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:09:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zhqgfguo.fsf@petton.fr> <20190228101822.GA4686@ACM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="54593"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 01 00:10:48 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gzUpE-000E7X-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:10:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzUpD-0000xP-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:10:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzUoY-0000xF-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzUoX-0006rP-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54704 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzUoX-0006r0-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gzUoU-000DMn-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:10:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:MlIMGZDfR4TkLpKiVKkTCf488M0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233716 Archived-At: > I think the general understanding is that there is no consistent pattern > of spaces vs. tabs+spaces in effect, and that this is not an important > thing. > > Way back in history, tabs+spaces was, I believe, universal, since it > saved on characters when the amount of RAM and disk space were a minute > fraction of today's. > > I would ask, however, that a systematic attempt to convert to a > consistent spaces only is NOT made. This fouls up diffs, giving the > impression of change where there is none. 100% agreed. Stefan